Woodland Foxgloves
at a gnarled oak’s knee…
The garden of landscape architect Paolo Pejrone
in Piedmont, Northern Italy….
Watercolor of Snowdrops…
A new find….
Detail of 19th century French Aubusson painting
Water color and goauche on paper
Relatively small… about 10 X 24 inches…
But precious details of birds, swirls, roses, poppies, pinks….
Floriferous detail of
oil on canvas Aubusson painting
Gardening notebook of the legendary
Vita Sackville-West…love the “ravishly” note
on the fold down at top…
Flora Danica luncheon plate
Handpainted perfection…
Carolyn Quartermaine….
handpainted flower on seat back…
My garden…starting….
Alliances and intrusions…
The self seeding poppy popping up in front of the
variegated swords of Palladian Iris…
The wanton creep of lambs ears
A neat row of redirected poppies that had
sprung up on the garden path…
now toe the line at the voluminous skirts
of self seeding foxgloves that sashayed in over winter
Erigeron…aka Santa Barbara Daisy…
boundless on the borders of lovely stone steps…
Also from Paolo Pejrone’s home…
House and Garden April ’07
The paintings with the birds are gorgeous. I love the colors in them. We must be on the same spring like wavelength because I have got flowers on the brain too. Just got back from picking some cherry blossom to include in tomorrow’s post when I stopped by to see what you’ve been posting!
xoxo Bardot in Blue
These are gorgeous pictures. I feel as if I’ve just fallen into a French Villa and don’t want to leave. Lovely blog, I’ll be back!
Once again you’ve brought beauty into our lives!. Came back from the nursery yesterday with a car full of iris …just hope they grow in my garden as beautifully as they’ve grown in yours. Happy Spring!
Oh Trish, your flower files are lovely and are just the inspiration I need this morning to cast my laptop aside and venture out into my own garden that is in much need of attention. The roses need to be fed and my vines trained. Hope you enjoy a wonderful Spring weekend. ~jermaine~
You are so clever at assembling pictures Trish, and those of your garden are particularly delicious. “Ravishingly” is exactly the sort of word that Vita S-W used, have you read her gardening diaries?
Sharon
Thank you for the wonderful flower pictures, and thoughts of spring gardens. My own garden is just appearing from under the snow, and I can’t wait to see the perennials begin to emerge. Thank goodness that so many wonderful artists and artisans use their gifts to give us flowers all year round. And that bloggers like you bring us their work.
Happy spring!